Formas de aprendizaje en un entorno OTEL

El vídeo de hoy es de Bryan Ferry, en una versión del clásico apocalíptico de Dylan. Otra vez, cuando nos invaden con programas televisivos tipo "Fama" u "OT", vale la pena recapacitar y volver a educar nuestros gustos -en este caso musical- y capacidad de valoración de prestaciones. Esta metáfora es también un mensaje hacia clientes: ¿ Por qué he de conformarme con mediocridades en lugar de buscar lo "best in class" ?


An excerpt from "The paper bridge"

There are three basic types of effective learning depending on the increasing degree of complexity: learning of representations, learning of concepts and learning proposition.

Learning representation:

It consists “ of being done by the meaning of sole symbols (generally words) or by what those represent ”.
It is a question of learning, what the isolated words or symbols mean. “

It means learning the particular symbols that represent or are effectively equivalent to the specific modals.

This type of learning links itself with the acquisition of the vocabulary. In the learning process of representations it is necessary to distinguish two aspects:

· The learning before the concepts.
· After the training of concepts.

In the first one, the words represent objects or events. The word is equal to the concrete and specific image of what such modals mean.

We wont enter here any debate, as this is not our domain of expertise, but linguists know well that depending on the language, the process of associating words and concepts differ from one language to another. Those who are fluent in German know how much that language for instance appeals to literal descriptions, when most of the indo European languages have a more symbolic way of constructing and associating words and concepts.
But, as the poet would say, that’s a different story.

What’s significant for us, is that the adult – or the child – when he grows up, learns new vocabulary to represent concepts.

Learning concept:

It is the second type of effective learning. This concept is defined as “ objects, events, situations or properties that possess attributes of common criterion and that are designated by means of some symbol or sign ”.
The concepts also represent symbols and individual words, but there is a major degree of abstraction depending on a few common attributes of criterion. They arise, so, from relating certain objects, events, etc. with common attributes, to all of them.

We assume two forms for the learning concept: one, training of concepts from the concrete experiences, similar to the learning representation, and, second, the consistent assimilation of concepts in relating the new concepts to the already existing ones in the participant forming conceptual structures.

Learning proposition:

It consists of “catching the meaning of new ideas expressed in the shape of propositions ”, that is to say, expressed in a phrase or sentence that contains several concepts.

Some specialists indicate that “ the propositions are two or more concepts tied in a semantic unit... Using a rather coarse metaphor, the propositions are the "molecules" with which the meaning is constructed and the concepts are the "atoms" of the meaning. Whatever, what is important for us, from an OTEL point of view, is the importance of logic between experiences, concepts, analysis and integration?

Put in other words, an OTEL session must be very cautious about the logical flow of activities, in order to avoid the repetitive learning (negative) effect, where things don’t flow e out naturally from the participant.

This type of learning can be done, combining or relating individual words between them, each one with a different modal, and combining them in such a way that the result (the proposition) is more than the sum than the meanings of the individual concepts.

Logically, in both previous types of learning it is a matter of representations or unitary concepts, whereas in the learning proposition intervene several concepts that relate to themselves and to the cognitive structure of the participant to produce a new consolidate meaning.

All of this can sound quite obscure, to put it mildly. Being practical, what we can say is that, on having implied relation of concepts, the acquisition of the propositions can be done only thru assimilation.


Frase del día
37. A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.
Gustave Flaubert